If you’re looking for a great layover lunch—or dinner—during your holiday travels be sure to check out one of the latest options at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.

Iron Chef star and all around celeb chef Cat Cora recently opened up a new restaurant in Terminal E at IAH—it’s near E10. Cat Cora’s Kitchen is intended to actually provide you with an enjoyable airport meal, and if travelers like this new outpost as much as the version out in SFO—check out the Yelp reviews—this should be quite an addition to the airport. ]]> kjb 2011-12-22T08:40:01-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/7/19/202925/885

When you think about the people who make a cruise ship run, who comes to mind? The captain...maybe the head chef and cruise director, right? Well, with about 1,000 crew onboard Cunard's Queen Victoria, there's so many others in the shadows, all responsible for making your vacation an awesome one. And over these two weeks, we'd like to introduce you to them.

Last week we gave you exclusive peeks into the (somewhat) secret lives of a ship's officer, a "gentleman dance host," the ship's acupuncturist and its actual doctor. Now we're headed into the kitchens with Roberto, the Queen Victoria's Chef de Partie in charge of sauces.

He's just back from a month-long vacation to Bali, where he slept in an overwater bungalow and dined on fresh meals prepared in the rice fields. He's Roberto, and believe it or not, he's the chef in charge of making all the sauces for meals onboard the Queen Victoria, in the Brittania restaurant.

Oh, but it gets better. Roberto is not only a dashing English man of Italian and South African heritage who cuts a fine figure in his tall chef's hat; he's also a Gordon Ramsay-trained chef, with a CV that includes Ramsay's restaurant at Claridge's in London. And like many Londoners, Roberto feels a connection with New York, specifically with Thomas Keller's Michelin four-starred restaurant Per Se, where he comes to dine (and tour the kitchen) almost every time the QV docks in NYC. ]]> JetSetCD 2011-07-20T15:10:01-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/6/21/8229/99263

Mmm food festivals. When it comes to the best events in the USA for wining and dining here, there and everywhere, the NYC Wine and Food Fest totally ranks high enough to get people all in a tizzy over it. The event, which brings together the best chefs and restauranteurs (and those who love them) for around 200 mini-events, happening all over the city, all weekend long. For 2011, the dates you need to know are September 29 - October 2, and tickets have just gone on sale.

Ranging in price from $20 to $500, the tickets aren't just to make The Food Network or Food & Wine magazine richer. 100% of proceeds go to charity, so it shouldn't be too hard to justify dropping that $500 to attend a dinner honoring His Royal Highness Prince Robert of Luxembourg and Jacques Pépin. To gauge how quickly certain events are selling out, here's a nice page with little pie charts illustrating just that. ]]> JetSetCD 2011-06-21T10:15:25-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/3/31/7540/81914

We knew celebrity chef Rick Bayless had arrived at Chicago-O’Hare, but only recently did we get to indulge in his latest offerings. We expected to rush through the airport in order to make our connection—but thanks to a flight delay—we were able to take in a little airport lunch. After trying Tortas Frontera, we were actually glad our flight was less than on-time.

The quick service restaurant is located in Terminal 1, so if you’re flying on United—a great possibility if you're heading through ORD—you’re all set. Otherwise, it might just be a little bit of a walk. ]]> kjb 2011-03-31T09:05:44-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/3/16/317/40180

Top Chef groupies can get a coveted seat at the dinner table for season nine's "Restaurant Wars" episode. And as any true TC fan worth his weight in foie gras can tell you, "Restaurant Wars" is always the single most exciting, drama-filled show.

If you're hungry to see next season's cheftestants up close; taste their dishes; meet Padma, Tom Colliccio and the guest judges; and get some face time on camera, you can bid for a table for two, donated by Padma, through a charity auction that benefits the Endometriosis Foundation of America. When we last checked, the bid was up to $6,600.]]> Jennifer Kester 2011-03-16T09:23:05-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/3/9/182410/5686

As if Top Chef Masters bad boy Ludo Lefebvre weren't busy enough with his new Sundance Channel travel-cooking show, highly sought-after pop-up restaurant LudoBites and popular L.A. food truck LudoTruck, the chef might be bringing a new eatery to LAX.

The Los Angeles Times reported that Los Angeles International Airport is considering letting Lefebvre open a chicken shack in Terminal 4. ]]> Jennifer Kester 2011-03-10T09:01:39-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/3/3/620/52448

Attempting to reserve a table at Chef Ludo Lefebvre's pop-up venture, LudoBites, is tantamount to trying to score impossible concert tickets. Los Angeles foodies clamour like groupies for the chance to try Lefebvre's experimental dishes, with a collective of super-fans having gone so far as to dub themselves "Ludo Bitches" and set up a website in homage to the tattooed impresario.

Lefebvre, who has previously appeared on Top Chef Masters and Hell's Kitchen, recently landed a series deal with the Sundance Channel, who've commissioned a show based on his popular pop-up restaurant. According to Eater LA, the show will follow fiery Lefebvre and wife/business partner Krissy (who you may recognize from The Apprentice) as they travel from coast-to-coast, "take over an existing restaurant that doesn't do dinner" and, in rapid reality show turnaround, "hire the staff, source the ingredients, and open a one-night only pop-up restaurant."]]> Heidi Atwal 2011-03-03T10:51:57-05:00 Search Jaunted string http://www.jaunted.com/search/